Explore Shoah through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Shoah in a sentence
Shoah meaning
The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Using Shoah
- The main meaning on this page is: The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.
- In the example corpus, shoah often appears in combinations such as: the shoah, usc shoah, shoah foundation.
Context around Shoah
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shoah
- In this selection, "shoah" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, usc, unjust, increased, foundation, 2023 and died stand out and add context to how "shoah" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include during the shoah and about the shoah in jerusalem. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shoah" sits close to words such as abdulrasheed, abhinav and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shoah
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tragic tellings of the Shoah are all too common. (9 words)
This does not in any way diminish the horror of the Shoah. (12 words)
The hatred, intolerance and prejudice that resulted in the Shoah have not disappeared. (13 words)
The Dimensions in Testimony SM Theater, created by the USC Shoah Foundation, uses holographic imagery to enable visitors to interact in real-time with a digital rendering of a real genocide Survivor: Dallas's own local Survivor, Max Glauben. (39 words)
Torah ornaments, chiseled and engraved with silver gilding from the Beth Micahel Temple on display at ‘Houses of life: Synagogues and cemeteries in Italy’ at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, 2023. (35 words)
Maio believed that artificial intelligence technology could make her notion realizable, so she pitched her idea to Stephen Smith, the executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles, and now her husband. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
The first, titled “The Dinosaur,” focused on the Holocuast documentary films of Claude Lanzmann, mainly The Last of the Unjust, Shoah, and Shoah: The Four Sisters.
In his 1998 testimony to the USC Shoah Foundation, he recalled how a Jewish American soldier named Haskell sent a letter for him to the secretary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Torah ornaments, chiseled and engraved with silver gilding from the Beth Micahel Temple on display at ‘Houses of life: Synagogues and cemeteries in Italy’ at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, 2023.
Tragic tellings of the Shoah are all too common.
Cukurs portrayed himself as both a political exile who had been targeted by the Communists and a man who had rescued Jews during the Shoah.
George Steiner, the celebrated and polarizing literary critic whose work was shaded by the specter of the Shoah, died February 3 at his home in Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.
Maio believed that artificial intelligence technology could make her notion realizable, so she pitched her idea to Stephen Smith, the executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles, and now her husband.
She curated piles of old photos, the remains of those who perished in the Shoah.
The hatred, intolerance and prejudice that resulted in the Shoah have not disappeared.
Average Austrians understood it was socially and politically unacceptable to express hatred for Jews after the Shoah.
Senator Stirling Griff says many young Australians have a ‘limited understanding’ of the Holocaust and has called for increased Shoah education in schools.
The Dimensions in Testimony SM Theater, created by the USC Shoah Foundation, uses holographic imagery to enable visitors to interact in real-time with a digital rendering of a real genocide Survivor: Dallas's own local Survivor, Max Glauben.
The group from Yad Ezra delivered food to two Righteous Gentiles in Warsaw who told them about saving Jews from the death camps during the Shoah.
This does not in any way diminish the horror of the Shoah.
Throughout its production, “Shoah” was plagued by financial problems, difficulties tracking down interviewees, and even threats to his life.
But it was his crucial role in bringing about the Jewish community centre in Krakow where his support for Shoah survivors began more than a decade ago.
His films based on themes of war, namely the lengthy “Shoah,” brought the Holocaust and its aftermath on screen to the world in all its stark, chilling detail.
In 2012, Herb Fantle, who survived the Shoah in Austria, talked about his life as he sat for a portrait by Spanish painter Félix de la Concha.
Spizzichino was the one woman among those 16 survivors who returned to Rome, and became a leading Italian figure in the testimony of the crimes committed during the Shoah.
Learning about the Shoah in Jerusalem offers a different but equally authentic encounter with the subject as visits to sites in Europe.
Common combinations with shoah
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the shoah 13×
- usc shoah 3×
- shoah foundation 3×
- shoah in 3×